Boris Johnson will announce a "comprehensive" lockdown escape plan next week as deaths rose to 26,771.
The Prime Minister told the daily Downing Street press briefing that he was '"very lucky" to be alive as he announced that the UK has passed the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Johnson, whose partner Carrie Symonds gave birth on Wednesday, also thanked the NHS for delivering his newborn son.
It came as the Government conceded it could miss its target to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests per day, an aim which had been set out by Health Secretary Matt Hancock amid criticism of the Government's testing strategy.
Meanwhile, swabs for passengers will be the "new normal" as the world adjusts to life after lockdown.
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